One of the highlights of the “College Gameday” show every Saturday morning is finding out which on-site “celebrity” will sit next to the hosts of the show to predict outcomes of the college football games of that day.
In what could be the one and only time in South Dakota’s history the massive production, viewed by over two million people most weeks, is on this state’s soil, which celebrity is best suited to represent the state?
Typically a famous person with ties to the college, city, or state of the Gameday site is the picker.
At Nebraska last month, for example, the celebrity was actress Gabrielle Union, an Omaha area native who moved away during childhood and did not attend the University of Nebraska, but *is* the wife of former NBA star Dwayne Wade.
She showed herself to be a true Husker fan, but some wanted Nebraska native and resident Larry the Cable guy, a popular comedian whose material is based partly off simple rural country living.
Famed “Roseanne” and “Big Lebowski” actor John Goodman is a native Missourian who played college football at Missouri State. But he was the celebrity who appeared on the show at LSU, whose ties to Louisiana include currently residing in New Orleans and playing an LSU player in the 1980’s movie “Everybody’s All American.”
Chad Greenway, Brock Lesnar, and Tom Brokaw are three of the most famous South Dakotans to date, all for different reasons. None of them are SDSU alumni.
Governor Kristi Noem is a graduate. But politicians rarely appear on the show.
There are other famous, and not so famous people, who might deserve it and could have the ability upto stir the crowd.
